American Jeremiad"This is a dazzling performance. It supplies conceptual links between phenomena where historians have often sensed a connection without being able to describe it adequately. . . [Bercovitch] has written intellectual history at the highest level."—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books |
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Adams ambiguity American jeremiad American Puritan American Revolution apocalyptic blessings Boston called Cambridge Canaan century Christ Christian chronometricals church church-state clergy colonial colonists concept consensus Cotton Mather Covenant of Grace culture Danforth destiny divine dream earth Edwards Edwards's elect election-day ellipses deleted Emerson emigrants England England Puritans enterprise Federalist fulfillment future glory God's Gospel-Covenant Halfway Covenant hath heaven holy horologicals human ideal Increase Mather Israel jeremiad Jerusalem Jews John Cotton Jonathan Jonathan Edwards kingdom land liberty Lord Magnalia Mass meaning Melville's middle-class millennial millennium ministers mission moral myth New-England Nicholas Noyes Oration Perry Miller political progress promise prophecy prophets Protestant Puritan Puritan jeremiad redemption Reformation Religion republic Revolutionary rhetoric Richard Mather ritual sacred history saints salvation Samuel Scripture secular sense Sermon seventeenth-century social society spirit symbol of America theocracy things Thomas Shepard Thoreau tion tradition unto Urian Oakes vision Walden White-Jacket wilderness William Winthrop York